Featured Music Bring the Noise: Red Bull Noise Complaint

December 15, 2011 - 11:48 am

Two highly successful New Jersey based rock bands are returning to their home state to celebrate its role in making them who they are today. This holiday season, Senses Fail and Saves the Day return to New Jersey’s famous Starland Ballroom located in Sayreville for not only one of their stellar performances but for a chance to give back to the local music community as part of Red Bull Noise Complaint. A dollar from each ticket sold to the December 23rd show will be donated to the upkeep of the famed Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ. The small no-frills venue, open for nearly 30 years, has hosted rock and alternative acts such as Pavement, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Gaslight Anthem, The Bouncing Souls and Lifetime. The Court also provides a stage for up-and-coming local acts and offers regular free shows for the strapped-for-cash student looking to catch some live music.

To pass along the torch, a local up-and-coming New Jersey band was chosen to open for Senses Fail and Saves the Day at Starland. That group, Banquets was selected at a Red Bull Noise Complaint showcase at Court Tavern on Friday, November 18th.

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Art Ink-N-Iron: Kustom Culture Festival

June 24, 2011 - 11:05 am

Tatoo Long Beach

The 8th Annual Ink-N-Iron Tattoo and Kustom Culture Festival hit Long Beach, California, this past weekend, using the legendary Queen Mary as the backdrop along with a flock of men with facial tattoos, cabaret dancers and pole aerialists. This unique festival not only showcases the work of tattoo artists from around the world, but also live music, art shows, burlesque girls, pin stripping, vintage cars and motorcycles and even a pin-up girl contest.

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Fashion Gallery Bamboozler Babes in Boyland: New Jersey 2011

May 11, 2011 - 11:17 am

If you want a snapshot of America on any given summer just take a sampling of the trends set at its festivals. Bamboozle just occurred in New Jersey this past weekend and I tasked the talents of photographer Joe Gall to capture the people and mayhem of the scene. Check out the awesome that is an ever fashion forward Jersey scene…no seriously.

Porcelain Black AKA Alaina Beaton

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Featured Gallery Music World Champion Chiddy Bang

May 10, 2011 - 10:23 am

Honestly, I didn’t know anything about dance-hop duo Chiddy Bang, other than the fact that front man Chidera Anamege aka “Chiddy” just broke M-Eighty’s world record for the longest freestyle ever (at over nine hours straight), until Bamboozle… And I gotta say, the boy’s got skills.

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Music Street Drum Corps Tonight at the Roxy: Can’t Beat That!

November 30, 2010 - 5:14 pm

If you missed the Street Drum Corps last week, or even the week before that, you have an awesome opportunity to catch them tonight at the Roxy in Hollywood. They are doing a month long residency and this is almost the last chance..almost..next Tuesday night will be there fond farewell. But shoot…don’t delay! They are just as incredible as you might think they are. Just ask Sam from the Suicide Girls and she’ll tell you all about ‘em.

Words by Barbie Brady

Featured Music 20 Years of Bullying the Jukebox: Bouncing Souls Bryan Kienlen

April 26, 2010 - 11:43 am

Bryan Kienlen

If you ever dipped your toe into the punk rock stew, you inevitably got a little Bouncing Souls on you. This band has been around the scene for 20 years now and they are holding steady as one of the most hard working, rocking, always relevant bands out there. It was my pleasure to interview bass player, Bryan Kienlen to hear how the years have been treating him as an icon of the scene.

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